The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-04-23

Gen. Thomas J. Brady, of ''Star Route"
fame, is reported seriously i'll in Jersey City.
The electric cable is to supercede horses
on the New Brunswick N. j. street railway.
Slight shocks of earthquake continue to be
reported at various points in the interior OF
Mexico.
Major John E. Blaine, Army Paymaster
and brother of James G. Blaine, died at Hot
Springs, Arkansas, on Thursday.
After many fruitless efforts in that direc-
ton, local society in Cincinnati has sue
ceeded in having four actors fined S25 each
for acting on Sunday.
Active measures are being taken to stamp
out the pluro- pneumonia in Chicago AT the
Empire Distillery alone about 900 cattle have
been slaughtered.
John Hastings, 80 years old, is reported
sick with leprosy in Louisville, Kentucky.
He contracted the horrible disease in the
Sandwich Islands about three years ago.
i A new vault is to be constructed in the
Treasury building at Washington to accom-
modate the accumulation of standard dollars.
1t will have storage capacity of 00,000,000
of those coins.
Local elections at which license was a
principal question were held in many cities
and towns Of Illinois on Tuesday. A major
ity of the cities declared for license, while
the smaller towns all went for prohibition.
George Clark, reputed millionaire land
owner and hop dealer of Springfield, Otsego
county, New York, made an assignment
on Wednesday. He owned large tracts of
land in Otsego and several other counties.
DR.. Henry Detweiler, said to have been the
first homeopathic physician in Pennsylvania,
died on Thursday in Easton, aged 81 years.
He visited his patients until two weeks ago,
when he was injured by fall on the side
walk
The 18th annual session of the Union
American Methodist Episcopal Conference,
embracing churches in Pennsylvania, Della
ware and Maryland, opened on Wednesday
in Chester, Penna. Bishop Williams pre-
sided.
= A little bit of woman in Topeca, who was
jim debt $500 and hadn't second dress to her
4 back, went at it and invented an egg beaten,
and sold her right, title and interest in it for
1 81, 400 cash. Her first move was to buy $40
bonnet.
Abigail Jackson is the name ola Connecticut
| girl who had a breach of promise suit against
a young farmer, and settled it for yoke of
steers and silver watch. She says she looked
at the principle of the thing, and not at the
money in it.
The rains which have filled the channel of
Brazos river, in Western Texas, putting an
end to the drought, have brought down hun
dreds of dead cattle, and the stream at Waco
is covered with decomposing carcases. Sick
ness is feared.
The daughter of Luke Welters, was burned
to death at Shamokin, Penna., on Tuesday
morning. by the explosion of coal oil lamp.
Her father and mother were severely burned
in trying to save her, and the house was
burned down.
The greater part of the French crown
Jewels (soon to be sold) will, i. is believed in
Paris, be purchased on orders from this
country. Many of the gems, it is added, are
likely to become the property of the wives OF
| United States Senators.
1t is stated that the Chicago postofice
authorities have stopped the delivery of reg
istered mail to T. S. Gardner and several
publications by the names of the Farm Jour
/ nal, Farmers Album and Farming World on
the ground that his publications are swindle.
Prof Brown-Sequard informs his students
that death from throat cuttingis painless from
the moment the skin of the neck is severed,
and that the severing of the larynx produces
complete anesthesia. Moreover, blow de-
livered with violence upon the laranx can
produce instantaneous death.
At a railroad crossing in Lancaster, Penna.,
on Tuesday afternoon, an express train struck
wagon containing John Becker, his wife,
their daughter law and her two year-old
child, The old couple were killed, and the
daughter was severely injured. The child
was picked up off the COW catcher unhurt
1t is stated that letter from Rudolph
Schnaubelt. the much looked-for anarchist
and alleged thrower of the Haymarket bomb,
has been received in Chicago, dated ''Chris-
tiana, Norway, March, 1881" The fugitive
denies throwing the bomb but intimates he
1 is sorry he did not do it.
A New Yorker has invented vacuum car,
in which, he says, he can navigate the air at
high rate of speed and drop explosives with
precision upon the decks of war vessels or in
fortified places. The Navy Department has
deemed the matter of sufficient Importance to
/ instruct an ordinance officer to communicate
1 in person with the inventor.
A tornado passed through Nansemond
county, Virginia, on Monday night, devastat
ing track about one hundred yards in width.
! The house of John Wright, six miles from
Suffolk, was demolished. Wright was dan
gerously injured, his wife and a man named
Luke were killed, and Mrs. Wright's young
sister was fatally injured.
Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, accompanied
by Princess Liliuokalani and number of
Hawaiian officials, arrived in San Francisco
on Wednesday, ON their way to England to
attend the celebration of Queen Victoria
jubilee. The party will remain in California
about week. On their way to New York
they will visit Washington, and pay their re-
spects to President Cleveland.
This administration will not retaliate in the
manner desired by the Gloucester fishermen.
President Cleveland intimated as much-in his
letter to the Fishery Association seyeral.weeks
ago, and now Secretary Bayard states very
plainly that the interests of the rest of the
country cannot be sacrificed to benefit the
state of Massachusetts,. The logic is good,
and the language couched in terms intended
to be conciliatory, but the fishermen will not
be satisfied.
A Rolling Fork, Miss, special says-"On
| Thursday afternoon hailstorm passed over
this section, the like of which has never been
witnessed here. When the hail first began to
! fall the people thought the roofs were being
torn from their houses. 1t hailed steadily for
thirteen minutes, and thousands of hailstones
fell that were larger than hen eggs. Several
were picked up that measured 81 inches in
circumference, and two weighed Al ounces
Holes were knocked in roofs of houses and
trees were partially stripped of their foliage"
The President on Thu rsday appointed Ed
ward F. Bingham, of Ohio, to be Chief
of Columbia, to succeed Cartier, deceased.
Judge Bingham is So years of age. He has
for the last fifteen years been Judge of the
Columbus Court of Common Pleas, and in
I 1881 was Democratic candidate for Justice Of
the Supreme Court of Ohio. He is a personal
friend of ex-senator Thurman, by whom and
all the Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio
his appointment was warmly recommended.
A telegram from Chicago, on Wednesday,
reports that the Anarchist Groups of the In
ternational Working Peoples Association in
that city have been dissolved by mutual con-
sent. The dissolution was fastened, if not
caused, by speech from one of the leaders
of the Central Labor Union, who said: You
have no organ. Your name is mentioned
with horror and contempt, even by working
men. If the lives of the eight convicted men
now in the county Jail are dear to you, dis
band, and let allpast experiences be forgotten
forever"
A dispatch from the City of Mexico gives
| an account of most horrible and bloody